How two Islamic groups fell from power to persecution: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey's Gulenists
- Written by Ahmet T. Kuru, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever democratically elected president, died unexpectedly during a trial in June 2019. He was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, an almost century-old Islamist group that rose to power after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
Its political tenure was short. Morsi was deposed by a coup in 2013, on the one-year...
